It is not even abuse of the system in furtherance of tax avoidance: it is the very point of the system.

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Yet, even as society focuses on addressing child abuse, it has fallen far behind when it comes to responding to elder abuse.

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Baked goods loom large in my pictorial history, as does the use and abuse of Dep Gel and even, dare I say it, an affinity for socks and sandals.

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That research analysts may have been paid for getting banking business, even indirectly, was such an obvious abuse that no firm could justify it.

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At issue today is what role Unocal (nyse: UCL - news - people ) played in allowing the abuse to take place and whether it benefited from it--even if it wasn't directly complicit.

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